>It's worse. So much worse. Even more than the last few times. It's been ramping up. Thoughts of being alone, being worthless and a drain just won't leave. The voices found a gap in my armor left when Nona did. >I'm ready but it's an absolute nuke. I shake and tremble as the inside of my head screams at me. >She's off with a new guy. Never loved you in the first place. >I try to rationalize, to choke this down but it's no use. The best I can do is get somewhere closed in. I move from the living room up to my room. Safe. >I get no further than the stairs as it ramps up. >You're alone. No one likes you. Not mom, not dad and certainly not Nona. Why else would she leave? >It narrows my vision and beats my heart fast. I have to do my exercises. I have to ride this out. It ramps further and harder, now just a few paces from my door. >She's telling everyone your secrets. About me. About how horrible you actually are. >I force with all my might and make it inside my room, closing the door behind myself. I wait for the rooms soothing effect but suddenly the inner voice takes a smug tone. This isn't safe anymore. >Remember when she was here? Won't ever be again. >Everything around me drops. I fully hyperventilate and have to grasp at my chest. Where do I go? I have to find somewhere I can calm, can ride this out. It's not here. Fuck. >I stumble back into the hall and the voice laughs a cackling and evil laugh. It knows I can't fight it right now. It's ready and has been planning this. It doesn't hold anything back. >They hate you. All of them. Judee, Heather, Annamaria, Karl, Nona. They're all waiting for you to die. Waiting for you to stop dragging them down. >I force myself into the upstairs bathroom and find my way to the toilet, the strife emptying my guts inside of it. The retching is tinged with more insults. >Worthless. Useless. Burden. cont.
>>68831391 >I grasp hard at the sides of my head. Painfully hard. The voice doesn't quiet at all. >You can do right by them. There's a way out. >No. No god. I won't. Nona made me prom- >The girl who's off in college getting railed by every man in her dorm? >STOP! >I shoot up and pant, sweating and staring at the wall. I'm offered no pause, no break. The biggest push yet. >You shouldn't have been born. >I shake. >You're broken. Unfixable. >Tears start to flow. >There's only one choice you can make that matters anymore. >I plead in my own head as my hands shake. No I'll be okay. I have to be. >And yet here we are. You want to have to show this to Nona? >I can't stop my mind from slowly being pulled. Riding into acceptance. Into the answer it wants me to find. >You're on a time limit. She can live a happy life without you but if you parasite onto her happiness when you go it'll just leave a wound. You want that? To hurt her? >I shake my head no. >Then rip the bandage off now. We know this was going to happen eventually. Spare her from it. A kindness. >I start to calm. A sense of finality takes me. I can at least stop being a burden. Stop passively hurting those around me. I focus and listen. >The kitchen. >I follow the voice downstairs and right into the kitchen. Dad's at work and mom's busy outside. >Any will do. >I grab a knife and look over it. Not mom's favorite. I pick again, this time a small paring knife. It's enough. I'm more relaxed than I'd ever been before. No more fight, just progress. >Upstairs bathroom. Make it easy to clean up. >Right. I do as instructed and make my way all the way up and into the bathroom, discarding my clothes and running the shower as I get inside. Knife in hand. >The voice goes quiet. I feel it instructing my hands. I sit down and close my eyes, focusing. Nona's face is presented to me. Goodbye. cont one more.
>>68831521 >I find the vein and open it, both arms. It's a cold and searing pain but it quickly goes numb. The hot water feels so nice on me as I lean back, relaxing. Peace takes me. The voice rests a hand on my shoulder, confirming this. I start to feel myself fading off to sleep, gently. I focus on the quiet pattering of the shower on the tub.